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Prof. Michael Szurawitzki

About the person

Michael Szurawitzki, PD Dr phil. habil., M.A.

Substitute for the W2 professorship for German as a foreign language

  • 2020-2023 Full Professor of German Language and Literature at the Beijing Institute of Technology

  • 2014-2017 Full Professor of German language and literature, Tongji University Shanghai, Head of Organisation IVG World Congress of German Studies 2015

  • Deputy professorships including 2024-2025 Brandenburg University of Technology, 2018-2020 University of Duisburg-Essen, 2017-2018 University of Hamburg, 2012-2013 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

  • Associate Professor 2009, Åbo Akademi University (Docent for German language and literature and linguistics)

  • Fulbright Scholar 2007 (University of California at Irvine)

  • Doctorate 2005 (Åbo Akademi University), Habilitation 2011 (University of Regensburg)

  • Website: www.szurawitzki.de

Research

ORCID-ID: https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-1410 (external link, opens in a new window)

Main research: German as a foreign language (especially technical and scientific language, text routines), media linguistics, intercultural linguistics

Selection of major book publications

(2024): Handbuch Deutsch als Fach- und Fremdsprache. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter. (= De Gruyter Reference) (ed., together with P. Wolf-Farré) Link (external link, opens in a new window)

(2020): The Chinese messaging application WeChat as a virtual language island. Studies on the use of WeChat by German-speaking expatriates in China. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. link (external link, opens in a new window)

(2015): German as a language of science - international, interdisciplinary, intercultural. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. (ed., together with I. Busch-Lauer, P. Rössler, R. Krapp)

(2012): Contrastive academic language research. Contrastive Perspectives on Academic Discourse . thematic issue. linguistics online 52.

(2011): The thematic entry. A diachronic and contrastive study based on German and Finnish linguistics journal articles. Frankfurt/M. etc.: Peter Lang. (= Duisburger Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft 85) [Habil.-Schrift]

(2005): Contra the "rex iustus /rex iniquus"? The influence of Machiavelli's "Il Principe" on Marlowe's "Tamburlaine", Shakespeare's "Henry V" and Gryphius' "Leo Armenius" Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. (= Epistemata 550) [Diss.]

Prof. Dr. Michael Szurawitzki

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